Ivri then rattles off trade and tourism statistics meant to convince Israeli viewers of just how much the European Union benefits Israel. He also boasts that the EU is a customer for Israel’s weapons industry, particularly drones.

Ivri is a strong supporter of a one-state solution, but not one where Palestinians and Israelis would have equal rights. Rather, he supports eliminating the Palestinians as a people altogether – a goal that fits the international legal definition of ethnic cleansing and probably outrightgenocide.

In January 2013, Ivri tweeted that “Judea and Samaria” – the name Israel uses for the occupied West Bank – “can always be annexed, full-stop.” If Palestinians resist, he warned, “they’ll be tossed away, on a truck. Force is always an option, but we prefer an agreed-upon solution (but if not, force).”

“No one will rule Gaza for Israel. Only Israel can do it,” he tweeted during the same Israeli assault, adding that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ “days in power are numbered, and after he’s gone Israel will also have to rule Judea and Samaria.”

Dehumanizing Palestinians

Ivri justifies this kind of exterminationist violence by total demonization and dehumanization of the victims of Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid. Ironically, he does sometimes recognize the existence of Palestinians if only to cast them as devils.

“The Palestinians are the heirs to the Nazis,” he tweeted in May 2016, adding that the Palestinian flag “means only one thing = a call to murder Jews, wherever they are.”

In October 2015, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused international outrage by exonerating Hitler of masterminding the extermination of millions of European Jews and blamed it instead on a Palestinian, Ivri chimed in with apparent support.

“The Palestinians volunteered to help Hitler,” Ivri claimed. “It’s all well known.”

Normally, the EU would be expected to balk at gratuitous comparisons of other events to the Nazi genocide. But apparently this is fine as long as the targets are Palestinians.

Ivri’s incitement does not target only Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. He hates Palestinian citizens of Israel too, referring to Bedouins as a “time bomb.”

He also promotes racial discrimination in hiring: “An employer can’t find out if his potential employees are involved with terrorism. What should he do? Clearly he won’t employ Arabs at all. Put yourself in his shoes for a moment.”

Support for war crimes

Ivri’s support for war crimes against Palestinians is regular and casual. When in March 2016 Elor Azarya executed the injured, incapacitated Palestinian Abd al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif in cold blood – a slaying for which the army medic was eventually given a slap on the wrist – Ivri applauded.

Since 2016, Israel has escalated its campaign against human rights defenders. Even the EU managed to issue a timid protest of Israel’s so-called transparency law, which tightens monitoring of human rights groups that receive funding from European governments.

EU promoting hate

An emailed inquiry from The Electronic Intifada to the EU embassy in Tel Aviv included a question about how much European taxpayer money Ivri was paid for his appearance in the video.

The embassy did not respond to that question or to others about Ivri’s regular incitement to racism and violence, including war crimes.

But the EU ambassador in Tel Aviv has previously made no secret of his extreme pro-Israel views.

In an open letter reflecting on the approaching end of his four-year tenure, Lars Faaborg-Andersen recalled that as a youth in the 1970s, he spent time on a kibbutz – a type of Zionist colony that played a key part in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but enjoyed a rosy progressive reputation among naive or complicit Westerners.

“In those days, young Europeans and Americans flocked to Israel to take part in the socialist kibbutz experiment and show solidarity with David in his struggle for survival against the surrounding Arab Goliaths,” Faaborg-Andersen wrote, regurgitating Zionist mythology that erases the Nakba, Israel’s expulsion of the vast majority of the Palestinian population in 1948, as well as the subsequent occupation and colonization of Palestinian land.

During his time as ambassador, Faaborg-Andersen and his EU colleagues have done all they can to advance Israel’s war against the Palestinian struggle for survival and freedom, including funding Israel’s arms industry and torturers, participating in Israel’s attacks on the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and remaining fully complicit in Israel’s brutal siege on Gaza.